Aleksandar Rankovic

Aleksandar Rankovic (28 November 1909-20 August 1983) was Minister of Internal Affairs of Yugoslavia from 1946 to 1953, succeeding Vlada Zecevic and preceding Svetislav Stefanovic, and Vice-President from 1963 to 1966, preceding Koca Popovic.

Biography
Aleksandar Rankovic was born on 28 November 1909 in Drazevac, Kingdom of Serbia, and he was a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, and from 1929 to 1935 King Alexander I of Yugoslavia had him imprisoned for his communist activism. In 1940, he joined the Politburo of the Communist Party, and his wife and mother were killed by Nazi Germany's Gestapo while he was a commander of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II. In May 1944, he created the OZNA security agency of Yugoslavia and later the UBDA, and in 1966 he was purged from his offices for allegedly bugging Josip Broz Tito's sleeping quarters. He died in 1983 at the age of 73.